Friday, September 29, 2017

BY DONATING ONE MONTH'S 1% DA ARREAR ,THE MEMBERS OF NFPE, HOWRAH DIVISION HAS CREATED A HISTORY. ON THE AUSPICIOUS OCCASION OF OUR GREAT FESTIVAL, DURGA PUJA, STARTED A NEW PROJECT CALLED " AMADER
DURGA"

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IN WHICH, DISTRIBUTED ABOUT 304
NEW DRESSES AMONG THE STREET CHILDREN, ORPHANAGE, FLOOD AFFECTED AREA CHILDREN,
CHILDREN OF VERY POOR REMOTE VILLAGES OF MEDINIPUR DISTRICT, EVEN TO THE
CHILDREN OF VERY POOR MINORITY VILLAGES TOO.

NOT ONLY THE EMPLOYEES OF HOWRAH
DIVISION, ALSO MANY OTHERS FROM OTHER DIVISIONS HELPED US IN THIS PROJECT.

NFPE conveys greetings and thanks,
the Divisional Unions of NFPE and other who helped in Howrah Divisions for
their social work.

Thursday, September 28, 2017

Rate of Dearness
Allowance applicable w.e.f. 01.07.2017 to employees of Central Government and
Central Autonomous Bodies continuing to draw their pay in the pre-revised pay
scale/Grade Pay as per 6th Central Pay Commission

No. 113/2008-E.II(B)

Government of India

Ministry of Finance

Department of Expenditure

New Delhi dated. the 26th
September, 2017.

OFFICE
MEMORANDUM

Subject- Rate of Dearness
Allowance applicable w.e.f. 01.07.2017 to employees of Central Government and
Central Autonomous Bodies continuing to draw their pay in the pre-revised pay
scale/Grade Pay as per 6th Central Pay Commission

The undersigned is
directed to refer to this Department’s OM. of even No. dated 7th April, 2017
revising the rate of Dearness. Allowance wet. 01.01.2017 in respect of
employees of Central Government and Central Autonomous Bodies continuing to
draw their pay in the pro-revised pay scale i Grade Pay as per 6th Central Pay
Commission.

2. The rate of DA
admissible to above categories of employees of Central Government and Central
Autonomous Bodies shall be enhanced from the existing 136% to 139% w.e.f.
01.07.2017.

3. The provisions
contained in paras 3, 4 and 5 of this Ministry’s .O.M.No;1(3)12008-E.II(B)
dated 29th August, 2008 shall continue to be applicable while regulating
Dearness Allowance under these orders.

4. The contents of this
Office Memorandum may also be brought to the notice of all organisations under
the administrative control of the Ministries/Departments which have adopted the
Central Government scales of pay.

A meeting was held
under the chairmanship of Joint Secretary, DBT Mission, Cabinet Secretariat on
25th August, 2017 at 11:00 A.M in the Conference Hall, 4th floor, Shjvaji
Stadium Annexe Building, Rajiv Chowk, New Delhi on the subject mentioned above.
The list of participants isplaced at Annexure I.

2.Joint Secretary, DBT
Missionwelcomed
the participants and stated that the objective of the meeting is to deliberate
on Aadhaar linking of GPF, PPF and EPF accounts of employees, examine the
possibility of a centralised repository of employees" fund details with
Aadhaar as the primary identifier and establishing portability of fund accounts
across organisations. He requested all stakeholders to share comments and
suggestions in this regard.

3. Deputy CGA, Govt. Banking Arrangements, D/o Expenditure informed that an on-line salary application
system, Employee Information System (EIS) is being developed within PF MS
for implementation in all Drawing and Disbursing Offices (DDOS) and
Pay Accounts Offices (PAOS) of Central Ministries. EIS is envisaged to be
a central repository of details of all salaried employees, and it can also
maintain details of GPF of government employees. He fiirther stated that
at present, Aadhaar number is not a mandatory field in employee information
records, due to which Aadhaar seeding may be low. it was discussed that if the
employee data on E13 are linked with Aad’naar, it may serve the purpose
of establishing interoperability of salary and GPF accounts across DDOs.
It was highlighted that Railways and Defence departments are not covered
under £18. An example of e-Samarth was cited, which is a centralised
database of CRPP (Central Reserve Police Force) in MHA, which may be
studied for this purpose. Dy CGA also mentioned that M/o Railways and Defence
may also be consulted in this context.

4. Senior Audit Officer, Office of Comptroller & Auditor General
(CAG) of India, Delhistated that at present, State AG (Auditor General) offices
assign new GPF numbers to employees while moving across different FAQs and
there is no centralized mapping system with Aadhaar as the primary
identifier. JS. DBT Mission requested that the matter may be taken up with
the Office of C&AG, with the concerned Dy C&AG to examine the
possibility of mapping all State GPF subscribers across the country. It
was suggested that the role of a third party such as NSDL to create and
maintain this database may also be examined.

5. Assistant Director, D/o Posts stated
that that presently, around 25 lakh PPF accounts out of 27.2 lakh accounts are
on Core Banking Solution (CBS) network and these accounts are portable across
Post Offices. It was informed that every PPF account is associated with a PPF
number and a Customer Identification Form (CIF) number, which is a unique
number that holds all personal as well as account related information of
the customer. ideally, a customer can have one CIF number in one post
office. though the customer can have multiple accounts under these
numbers. It was further informed that Aadhaar linking with individual accounts and
CIF numbers is being undertaken and 4.7 crore ClFs out of total 56 crore CIFs
(which also include savings certificates, term deposit accounts, etc) have
been seeded with Aadhaar. JS, DBT pointed out that Aadhaar
seeding is very low in this case, and the Department may undertake necessary
actions to expedite the same to achieve 100% seeding by December 31, 2017.
It was further suggested that all PPF accounts and CIF numbers may be linked
with Aadhaar and the Department may share its suggestions on establishing
a common repository of all PPF accounts using Aadhaar as the identifier.

6. Deputy Director, M/o Labour & Employmentstated the Universal
Account Number (UAN) provides portability for the employees covered under
EPF. It was informed that 14 crore out of 4 crore active subscribers’
records have been seeded with Aadhaar. It was discussed that this will enable portability of EPF accounts when the
details of Bank Account, Aadhaar and PAN are seeded in UAN database of
the employees and are verified by employer on change of job. It was
suggested that Aadhaar seeding of all may be taken up priority.

7. Deputy Secretary, Budget, D/o Economic Affairsstated that a host of
small saving schemes including PPF are Operated by post offices, public sector
banks and select private secror banks and Aadhaar seeding is being
undertaken in all these accounts. JS, DBT Mission enquired if the.
Department is taking any initiative to have a centralised platform for
all savings schemes, given that all banks use different systems and
Operate in silos. It was discussed that the Department may examine the
matter and share updates in this regard.

8. After detailed deliberations, the following were
agreed upon.

i. All stakeholder
Departments to ensure 100% Aadhaar seeding of GPF, PPF and EPF accounts by
December 31, 2017.

ii. All Departments to
examine the possibility of developing common platforms for their respective
service subscribers/employees/account holders using Aadhaar as the unique
identifier to ensure portability across the financial system.

iii. DBT Mission to hold a review meeting with
senior officers of all stakeholder Departments in the second week of September.
2017 to discuss the issue further.

The undersigned is
directed to forward herewith a copy of record of discussion of the meeting held
under the chairmanship of Joint Secretary, DBT Mission, Cabinet Secretariat on
25.08.2017 at 11.00 AM on the subject mentioned above for information and further
necessary action, please.

Please find enclosed
herewith a letter No.D-11011/36/2016-DBT (Cab.) dated 29.08.2017 received from
Assistant Director, Cabinet Secretariat, DBT Mission forwarding therewith
record of discussions of the meeting held under the Chairmanship of Joint
Secretary, DBT Mission on 25.08.2017, wherein it has been directed that all the
Departments should ensure 100% of Aadhaar seeding by December 31,2017.

2. It is requested to
implement the instructions issued by the Cabinet Secretariat, DBT Mission, New
Delhi for seeding of Aadhaar by December 31, 2017.

Friday, September 22, 2017

CABINET DECIDED TO CLOSE DOWN TWELVE GOVERNMENT
OF INDIA PRESSES.

HOLD PROTEST DEMONSTRATIONS
AND DHARNAS.

Government decided to close down 12
out of 17 Government of India Presses.

Cabinet
rejected recommendation of the Parliamentary standing committee consisting of
32 MPs not to close down any Government of India Presse and accepted the report of Group of
Secretaries to close down

Confederation
National Secretariat calls upon all C-O-Cs and Affiliates to conduct
protest demonstrations at all Centers
and Dharnas in front of all Government of India Presses and send resolutions to Prime Minister.